Doe a Deer, a Female Deer

You guess it! We are enjoying The Sound of Music today. By far one of the best movies I own. The music, Austria, the history, nuns, curtain clothes, frauleins, being 16 going on 17, all of these things make this movie awesome.

When I was younger my mom had a record player in our basement. I am not sure if I am accurately remembering this, but this is how it goes. I would play the soundtrack of this movie, sing at the top of my lungs and dance around the basement. I looked just like Liesle and sounded just like Julie Andrews. My voice has evolved to also sound just like Celine Dion these days. I am just doing the Residence Life thing to keep myself busy while my demo circles around LA.

The Sound of Music has some great lessons in it, great lessons. I made a couple observations while enjoying this movie musical. I love when Maria is singing her song, "Confidence in Me." The lyrics to that song should maybe be posted in residence halls around the country. It might not be the song that everyone remembers from the film but it is so good. It plays well with the Baroness being so insecure with Captain VonTrapp and his feelings for Maria. I feel some sort of kindred connection with Maria. Not because I want to be a nun but because she has such a great work ethic. She is just trying to be the best governess she can be and by golly she did it.   

I also really enjoyed that in the gazebo in the yard, you know that one that is glassed in and every dancing-in-the-basement girl's dream? Well it was so great that Liesle and Rolfe's first kiss is at night in that oh so romantic rain storm in the gazebo and that is also where Maria and the Captain have their first kiss. It is like they wrote it that way on purpose, very tricky Rogers and Hammerstein. 

In the RA programming world I could not stop thinking about those play clothes that Maria made from the drapes. I think college students take play clothes to the extreme, wearing junky threads to class is not as cool as the VonTrapp kids make it look. But they are on to something there. Remember putting old flannel shirts on backwards to use a smock when creating art? I think if an RA were to plan a program where everyone had to come in their "play clothes" or backwards shirt smocks. Then you could travel as a group outside to make some floor art. A messy, splattered, fun dropcloth painted and decorated together. Having something like that on display in the hallway should brighten everyone's semester!